concordance

[kon-kawr-dns, kuhn-]

noun

1. agreement; concord; harmony.

   the concordance of the membership.

2. an alphabetical index of the principal words of a book, as of the Bible, with a reference to the passage in which each occurs.

3. an alphabetical index of subjects or topics.

4. (in genetic studies) the degree of similarity in a pair of twins with respect to the presence or absence of a particular disease or trait.

concordance

/ kənˈkɔːdəns /

noun

1. a state or condition of agreement or harmony

2. a book that indexes the principal words in a literary work, often with the immediate context and an account of the meaning

3. an index produced by computer or machine, alphabetically listing every word in a text

4. an alphabetical list of subjects or topics

Word History and Origins

Origin of concordance¹

1350–1400; Middle English concordaunce < Anglo-French, equivalent to Middle French concordance < Medieval Latin concordantia. See concord, -ance

Example Sentences

Drinking concordance among couples may be a reflection of compatibility among partners in their lifestyles, intimacy and relationship satisfaction.

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Finally, no concordance in epimutations between newborns and their parents was observed, arguing against direct inheritance.

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Last July, it said the artist had “always acted in concordance with the law and on the advice of her financial advisers.”

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"So I see great concordance between the changed investment strategies of the companies and what this government wrote up."

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The developer of a statistical method called factor analysis, Charles Spearman, concluded in 1904 that a general factor of intelligence, called a g factor, must underlie the concordance of measurements for varying human cognitive skills.

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